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Governor McSweeney Replies to ;Charges Against Him. HIS REPLY GIVEN IN FULL. He Defends His Administration and Presents His Caims for Re. Ejection to the Office of Governor. Governor McSweerey has prepared a statement rewarding his adinnistration and position, which is intesestiog. le says: Fellow-Citizens:- in presenting my claims as a candidate for aovernor I desire to thank you for your suffrage in twice electing me to the respon i-e position of lieutenant-governor. In that position I discharged my duties fairly, fearlessly and faithfully, aid received the proud endorsement <f the body over which I presided. My platform has already been announced in my annual message and on the hustings, but I shall endeavor to give it to you again, for I believe the people should hear fully the candidates a-king for their suffrage. As 5o know. I -uaceded the lamented Govercor tor toll out his unexpired ter:.. and I co:;e before you to ask your endorsemen:. I am one of the people and have fought my way through the world single handed and alone, and I am not ashamed of my re cord. Ever since I have heen in public life I have continuously fought for the people and 'heir rights. I am an advocate of an ecomical government wisely and judiciously ad ministered with as small a tax as the safe operation of the government will allow. My service has not been lip service, big professions and little deed., for I have never yet let an op;portunity pass to help the young men sd young women upward and onward in life, and I have always endeavored to protect and preserve the proud name of my native state, for the proudest heritage that I have is that I am a Carolinian. Nor have my services to the old soldier been wasted in sympathetic speeches, in public and pri ate life I have silent ly and q a:le 'ee all in my power to smooth the road of the tottering Con federate soldier on his final march to the grave. I am a firm believer in common schools. It is to them that I owe my advancement in life. My education was limited to them; my heart is wrapped up in them, and I would be as traitor ous to desert the common schools as the college man would be to desert his alma mater. Starting out in life as an orphan and penniless, the only friend I had was the free public schools. I have taken a special interest in them and shall continue to do so as long as I can be of service to them. I believe that special attention should be given to the education of children at our cotton fac tories. When I appointed the state board of education some time ago I ap pointed as a member an able teacher of a school of a manufacturing town im order that the interest of the factory children might have the benefit of his experience, and that they should have a representative on the highest educa tional board in the state. Lihewise I anm a consistent friend of the- colleres, both state and denomina tional. I glory in the i roud reco-d our colleges have made in the pst and the splendid unlimited future beform them. School houses have done more for civi lization and Christianity than all the armies of conquest have ever done or can ever do. The material prosperity of our state is exceedingly gratif~iag. While this is not due to my administration, for no governor can stop our march of pros perity, yet I have done all in iny power to help the grand movemnent along and to establish confidence in our enter prise and in our state government. My opponents have attacked me be cause I subscribed for the newspapers. By such charges they expect to catch the unthinking. Such a charge is an insult to intelligence. All of my pre decessors prop -:rly subscribed for papers and paidl for ihem in the same way. It is absolutely neceeary for the governor to know whether pr-oolmmtions, adver tisements for supplies and so fourth have been publihe-i as r ail f. and to keep posted as to &rand 5jacy present ments, violations of the law, co-ad u. of public officials, riots, lynchinugs and~ so forth. Only a few weeks ago a erirme was committed in Florence county, The prisoners were arrested, and had it not been that the governor was posted as to the state of feeling at Fiorence, in a great measure through the newspa pers, a c:-ime would have been commit ed that would have been a foul blot on the good name of our state and an in sult to Christianity and a perversion of law and order. And, my friends, I say here in this connection that so long as I am governor that I will exhaust every available means of the state before I will allow a mob law or lynch law to dominate the government and rule the lands. But we are here to discuss measures and not men. What is local option and what would be the result of such a scheme? It is so impracticable that neither Governor Tillman, nor Evans, nor Ellerbe, all stalwart friends of the dispensary, ever once thought of sug gesting such an idea and no honest prohibitionist can favor it for it allows that which he believes to be inherently wrong. The result of such a scheme would be a conglomeration of prohibi tion and dispensary counties, each bearing the burden and receiving the ill-effect of the other, with no benefits to either. It is a patchwork, crazy quilt, theory and could only result in confusion, and simply lives as a theory, only upon the specious demagogic idea of local self-government; for is it local self-government; you cannot limit it to a congressional district, for counties may want it. Y ou cannot limit it to counties for particular townships may want it. You cannot limit it to town ships for the numerous towns of a town ship may want it.' And then you could not only have a county full of bars or dispensaries against the sentiment of a o uunty, thereby defeating the theory of local option. but you would have such a diversity of the liquor business that the revenues would be so small that special officers would be a thing of the past and illicit liquor traffic would be untrammelled. But local option is not a material factor in this campaign. The issue is c'early joined between dispensary and prohibition. The dispensary is no ex periment. It has been a statute law for over six years and has~ been en dorsed by every legislature since its en actment. Political convictions have endorsed it and none have dared to con demn it. It has proved to be the only practical solution of the liquor question. People alway hae and always will have lia tl jiqior 'lict. The nore he sells the greater his profit. The profit feat ure is his only incentive and therefore, wore the encouragement he offers the buyer to buy more and more. That beiug the case the best solution to remove the cause that compels the un fortunate to buy more and more. The dispensary solves this. The dispenser gets his salary wheth er he sells one drop or not, and he is not allowed to indulge in the seductive and disastrous credit system. It is of no interest to him to sell impure liquor or to seduce a minor or to give a free lunch to the unwary. He is sworn and bonded to enforce the law and his posi tion is at stake. If he fails to enforce the law, you, the. people, who give him his position. can blame only your selves. How different is the blind tiger, the prnreney of prohibition, whose only am bition is to make dollars for himself and drunkards for the state and whose only claim to citizenship is based on his brazen effrontery as a law breaker. But it is contended there are tigers un der the dispensary system. Certainly, but the dispensary law does not make tigers. D.o you suppose people patron ize tigers because there is a dispensary law. or because they wan: l'j ior to drink? It is the patronaze that makes tige: s and ii it not natural to conclude that if you abolish the dispensary that the patronage heretofore going to the dis per;ary ii go to the blind tigers, t rcb % easing them ten fold. 'ie.n, when the dispensary g.oes the special offirer must go, and with only the civil officars, who are now unable to cpe with the few tigers the chaotic condition that must follow is enough to stagger every citiz n who loves his home and respects the law. Under a rrohibition law a heavy tax musit be levied upon every one to en force the law whether h.- favors prohi bition or not. But under the law every tr:in negro who buys his flask of liquer contributes a tax to the town and county to see that he keeps the peace. to work the road and to educate the children. Prohibition is a beautiful sentiment, but a miserable failure in practice. The .prohibitionist can use no stronger ar gument than to cite the states that have tried prohibition. Let us see the result of such argument. Maine, Iowa and Kansas have prohibition under their constitution. Now compare these states with South Carolina by the re port of the United States Commissioser of internal revenue for the year ending June 30, 1899: Maine-Number of retail liquor deal ers 1,125 Iowa-Number of retail liquor deal ers ;,730. South Carolina-Number of retail liquor dealers 324 The 324 credited to South Carolina includes every liquor dispensary in the State. Thus it is seen that the prohibi tion state of Kansas with one half mil lion population has ovtr ten times as many illegal liquor licenses as South Carolina. That Iowa with a fraction over two million population has six teen times as many and that the state of Maine with about seven hundred thousand population, (about one-half the population of South Carolina,) has five times as many. Bear with me while I callvyour atten tion to more unprejudiced and incon trovertible evidence of the fallacy of prohibition. A committee of fifty of the most prominent citizens of the Uited States includins: s-uch men as Seth Low, president of the Columbia university, and Charles W. Elliott, president of Yale university, and other men of equal prominence, not identi fed with politics, were appointed to in vestigate the operations of the liquor laws in several of the various states They report having found 182 places where liquor was sold in the city of Portand, Mc., not including pocket pedlers, houses of ill-fame, express companies, clubs, and certain oyster resturants. That while the investiga tion was in progresQ several new bars were opened. TM P'ortland Express in the issue of J':e 21st, 1894. contained the followir' protest of certain liquor dealers (prohibition town) of that city: Some liquor dealers -complain that their profits arc cut down by the com petition of shops allowed to exist in the vicinity of their own places of business and that the regular collection of lro tetion money may also be made of thmn These demands are in some in e auces said to be so excessive that the dealers say that they swallow up the lion's share of the profit and some imes actually make them run more direputable places than they other wie would in order to get in money enough to be able to respond to the peretual squeezing. In Augusta. Me., the capital of the State, 622 places were found in opera tion, or one to every 117 inhabitants. Ellsworth, with 2 300 inhabitants con tains 14 bars and tour other places (apotheeary shops) where liquor is sold. Throughout the entire State the sicken ing array of figures comes. The same account states that one dirty, filthy, hell-hole, where the vilest liquor is sold, is maintain"d to every 200 inhabi tants or less. The committee reports: "The conclusion must be that it is impossible to state from the statistics adduced just how far they reflect 2reater or less public inebriety. The general impression is that drunkenness is as prevalent now as ever before the constitutional amendment went into effect, if not more so.* "The toleration of an open defiance of the laws and the constitution indi cate not merely a widespread lack of sympathy with prohibitory measures, but a carelessness of public sentiment which of itself is grave. Citizens have become so accustomed to this defiance that little attention is paid to the con tinuance of violations of the liquor statute or to the contempt for law and order generally which is an inevitable c nsequenee. "A local judge in speaking of condi tions under a prohibitory law not en forced has said: 'The value of the oath has been reduced 50 per cent. in this State. Perjury (for which the maxi mum penalty is imprisonment for life) is so common that it no longer attracts attention. And it is not confined only to the liquor element; the effect of it is far reaching and growing. People talk of it openly and without a blush ' "Members of the supreme judicial court have said substantially the same thing and prosecutions for perjury conmitted during the trial of liquor cases are not frequent. Closely akin to perjury is the hypocrisy engendered when people are called upon to support a law that they do not believe in. The support of prohibition at the polls and in party platforms when it is so ill enforced can be explain' d only on the ground that men have scome hypo rites. A judge of the supreme court as ynoted in public newspapers, referr ing to conditions in Cumberland coun ty, alaine, said: 'It is a question whether the prohibitory law makes more hypocrites or more drunkards.' ti say: It is . qustitst _hethd bore then b:onc drunkard4 .r hypodrites under the prchibitory law.' This, gentlemen, is but a like report made of every other prohibition State by this committee. Hear me again, you men who believe that Democracy has a stronger claim upon you than prohibition, and hear the arraignment of prohibition, Col. Hoyt's pet theory, by the Democracy of Maine. On July 11, 1900, the Demo. eratic party adopted the following as a pa-t of its platform: "For nearly half a century we have had statutory law prohibiting the manuracture, sale and use of intoxi. eating liquors. For nearly half that time it has been embodied in the Ctat: constitution. Since it was first enafted scores of amendments, each more stringent and the penalties more than those preceding it, have been past d 'For nearly 2'' years the alleged en for:ement of the prohibitory law has been growing more and mare lax until today in nearly every cit, in the State a-d many of the larger towns there are regularly establshed bars and saloons where liqiors are sold in open, ft grant violation of the constitution and statutory law. Nearly every hotel, m ay rest aurants, hundreds of so ca'led drug stores and unnumbered and secret saloons and barrooms in the cities sell without restriction, save an occasional seizare and fine for political purposes. "For years the prohibitory law has been a poli:ieasl footbal. its hs p'eriti oil enforcenent has be u uzed to con trol the liq)r vote to icorea :e the i1 come of perj :red offiias and to swell the corruption funi for campaign lur poses. Through its instrumentality the party in power has irnfi-need jiries, cor:up'ed d:ffiaials sworn to enforce the law; debauched voters, deceived the advocates of temperance. betrmieed the cause it professed to support, creating a contempt and a disregard for all layws and has made the good name of the State a byword and reproach wherever it is known " Then you ask the question, if these prohibition States are in such a deplor able condition why do they not change? The answer is evident. Tnc liquor men are in the saddle and they, like the liquor men of South Carolina, are per fectly satisfied with prohibition. Think of the condition of Maine. The prohi bitionists cannot change. The liquor men cannot be disenthralled. Do) you desire snch a condition of affairs here? Have you any reason why South Caro lioa would not be in as deplorable conditien as any of these States. If so what is it? And if none, why change a settled law for a disastrous experi ment. Some of my competitors in their freezied desire for office have made the unwarranted charge that I have not enforced the law. Try my recrd be fore a tribunal over which neither I nor my competitors have any control. The reports of the attorney general s office show that for the year 1899. the only year reported to that office du; ing which I was responsible for the en forcement of that law that 32 mre were charged with the violation of the dispensary law than for the year 1898 Ninety-one more than for 1897; 213 more than for 1895. Thec years 18S3, 1894 are not considered as the enforement of the law was practicmlEy stopped by the courts. My record has been ex.ceded by only one year and during that year the constables were allowed to seize all inter state liquor as 'well as to arrest any man transporting contraband in ter-state liquor which privilege has since been denied by the court. During the past six months of my administra tion 167 cases have been sent to the circuit court for trial and 106 men have been convicted in the various courts of the State. Does this savor of a non enforcement of the law? My competitors make reckless charges of the non enforcement of the law. Two of thenm have taken an oath to support the law and the other two have a moral obligation on their shoulders as citizens. If either of them knows oft any vio lations of the law or has any such in formation is it not his duty to see that the law is enforced or renounce his obligations as an officer or a titizen? If they can specify as to any violations I can and wi!! use their testimony in the courts. To simply assert, or charge. without specifying and without proof is un manly, unfair and un-American. 1 have done the best I could to enforce the law. That it is not perfectly en forced, never has been, and never will be, is as true of this law as it is of any other law. The federal government with its unlimLited resources cannot stop moonshining. Then how can a debt ridden State do better than we have done? It has been suggested that the law has not been enforced in the city of Charleston. M1y friends, you may rest assured that the State authorities and oiers have done everything within their power to enforc3 the law. For the first six months of this year one magistrate alone issued (No)t seard w rants fer contraban'i liquor. Numbters of cases have been sent up to the up per court chargine persons with vio lating the law. No opportunity has ever been missed, so far as I know, to enforce the law vigorou4ly. But what in the result? Just as fast as we send them up the grand jury unceremoni ously throws them out. I cannot make juries nor am 1 the guardian of the conscience of any juror. We can only give the court and jar'les an opportuni ty to enforce th a law. If they decline or refuse, our labors can go no further. Now, in all fairness, can mortal man do more? No force that 1 can use, even to the shedding of blood, can force a jury to write to find a true bill or a verdict of guilty. No men in the State have an oppor tunity to determine whether the dis pensary law has been enforced better than the mayors of the towns. They are absolutely under no obligations to the executive department. Hear their testimony. The mayor of Newbervy says: "There is to violation of the dispensary law in town and I do not think there is any in the county. The dispensary law has been much better enforced during the past year than haretofore." The mayor of Spartanuhurg says: "There is very little, if any, violation of the dispensary law in the town or county. The illicit sal of whi-key is on the decrease. Tne law has tDeen well enforced during the past yar-." The mayor of Saluda say: ". Chere has been no violation whattner of the dispensary law in the town aod only by a temporary pocket blind tiger in the surrounding country among the ne gros at picnics, etc. So far as it is possible to tell, I would say that the dispensary law has been better en forced during the past year than here tofore.'" The mayor of Elgefield says: -'Te~ dispensary law is not being violated in this town or county to my knowledge." The mayor of Abbeville says: "The dispensary lawv is not being violated to any extent. Thiere are practically no ihe mayoi bf Floflehu says: "The iii.. sale of whiskey is de&rasing. The dispensary law has been as well enforced during the past year as here tofore." The mayor of Jhester says: "The dispensary law is not violated in town or county to my knowledge. I think the illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing The dispensary law has been as well enforced during the past year as here tof ore." The mayor of Laurens says: "The illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing considerably in this city and in the county. The dispensary law hay been better enforced during the past year than heretofere." The mayor of Orangeburg says: "There is no violation of the dispen sary law in this city, nor have I- heard of any in the county for some time. I judge the dispensay law is being better enforced than heretofore." The mayor of Rock Hill says: "The illi it sale of whiskey I do not think i. increasing. It is sold mostly from pocket blind tigers. I favor the law and would hks to see it kept on the statute books as I regard it as the best solution." The mayor of Ander3on says: "No illicit whiskey is sold in this city." The mayor of Winnsboro says: "The dispensary law is not being violated to our official knowledge or information. The illicit sale of whiskey is decreas ing. The dispensary law is as well, or better enforced than heretofore." I have earnestly endeavored to en 'orec the law without bloodshed, but thi4 law, as all other laws, must be en forced without apology to any man. Now, my friends, I ask is all candor in view of the conditions that exist in prohibition States, and the record in the enforcement of the law in South Carolina, is there any reason to q'es tioc or doubt the motive of the blind tigers in joining forces with the prohi bitionists. For whose benefit is such an alliance? Let the past experience speak for the I rasent. If prohibition should win, its continuance would have to depend, as in other States, upon its old ally, the tiger. Aain, the most enthusiastic prohi bitionist does not hope for a prohibi tion legislature. That means a contin uance of the dispensary. Now, my friends, who is the more likely to en force the law-a man who honestly be. lieves in the law, or a man like Col. Hoyt, in whose nostrils the very name of the dispensary law is a stench. N w, my fellow-citizsns, in conclu mi I thank the people of the State or the support given to my adminis trstion and am gratified for the harmo nious work of all the members of the administration. I have endeavored t> fultill the duties of the office of gover cor with the same fidelity and upon the same business principles that has always characterized my official and private life, whether as a member of the general assembly, as lieutenant . vernor, or in the Democratic coun ec:s. I am running on my record, merit and fitness for the offi 3e, and not upon the demerits of any other man.. I am running as an individual Demo crat, unfettered by the nomination or suggestion of any faction and bound by no platform except that of Democracy. i would rather my tongue should cleave to the roof of my mouth than to dip into the cesspools of slander and vitu peration Neither my State nor any of her honored citizens, such as my oppo nents, .shall be slandered by me for self-aggrandizement, and rather than go into office by mud-slinging and bit ter vituperation, [ will go to my grave unhonored. BE&UYIES OF DIVORCE L&W. Pays His Wife to Let Rim Marry An er Woman. A disp'atch from Chicago says a mag nifi::ent string of pearls, William Bate man Leeds' gift to his bride, was not the most costly part of his second mar riage. Leeds formerly lived in Chica go, is very wealthy and one of the prin ipal tioplate manufacturers of this country. To obtain freedom from his former wife to marry Nannie May Stewart Worthington, he is said to have given Jeannette Irene Leeds $1 000.000 in bands and stocks. The former Mrs. Leeds knew that her husband was en gaged to the dashing divorcee of Cleve land, but refused his entreaties that he be freed from the vows he assumed 17 years ago in a little Indiana town. Hie threatened to go into court him self for a divorce, and Mrs. Leeds smiled and said: "Go," but he did niot go For five years he had not lived with his Rife. Why they separated is a secret that both have kept. Friends guessed it, but Mrs. Leeds said noth ing. She was absorbed in the educa tion of her boy, Rudolph, now 14 years The first Mrs. Leeds was approached by her husband a month ago and asked o UuI'a a cash consideration to release him She~ %ad, the story goes, $1,000, 000 wns set m , much for a man to pay who wanted to marry a woman half his age. Leeds seemed to think his sec ond love was rated at a high figure. He tried to "bear" the price. Mrs. Leeds first declined to go into the dickering business. The chief of the tin plate baronq, it is alleged, at length sent $1,000,001 to his former wife, who was living at the Virginia hotel wuiting for the accept ance that she knew would come. The day after the transfer of all the bonds and stocks had been made she sought George A. Trude and told him she wanted a divorce from Leeds. "What about the alimony?" in quired the attorney, as he seemed to set down a memoranda of the points in volved in the bill. --That matter has all been settled," she said. "All I want of you is to get me a divorce. Mr. Leeds wants it quick, and you cannot proceed to rap idly. A fairer and a younger woman is waiting for him." August 1, at 11 o'clock in the morn ing, the bill for divorce was filed. Fif teen minutes later Judge Bishop lis tened to the tesiwony of a mi~ddle aged woman, g'iietly drcrsed. Site said her hsband :.ad djeserted her five years ago. Ste kuiesv uf no cause for his conduct. 'he usual denial had been filed by Leeds' attorney, but no defense was made in court. Half an hour after the filing of the bill the decree was granted. That evening Mrs. Leeds the first left Chicago for the east. She is going to Europe with her boy. Gainesville, G a., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and ILam per fectly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. D)orsey. P. 8.-I am using it now myself. It's doing nie good. -Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all A TRAGIC SUiCIDE.1 A Man Who Uses a Pistol to Avoid Rescue. A VERY STRANGE CASE. A N, w Yorker Weary of Life Puts a Ball in His Brain While Dr.wning. The Yacht Elith, Captain Parker, lay in her berth at the inlet at 5 o'clock. Every day she makes several trips out to sea. Always the Edith has most pas sengers on her evening trip. for she s:arts when the sun is setting and re turns when the dusk is gathering. One of the first to go abroard this ev ening was a young man who seated himself in the bow. He was short, slight and weighed not more than 100 pounds, Captain Parker thinks. There was nothing peculiar in the young man's bearing, Fo. naturally, the captain did not scrutinize him. But he noticed that his passenger wore a black slouch hat and a suit of serge somewhat the worse for wear. YACH ' SOON CROWDED. Parties of two or three, sweethearts sauc, some people irdustriously pursu ing, good health, soon filled the boat. When there were about twewty-five aboard Captain Parker cast off and the Edith put out over the calm, gently rolling water, The passengers laughed and joked. chaffed each other about be ing gad or good sailors, or made unob trusive love or watched others make love. Oaly the young man, who wore a black slouch hat, sat alone in the bow He was quiet, the passengers say, but he did not seem moody, despondent. Now, silent, he loooked out over the il limitable expanse, now at the men and women from whom he was about to cut himself off. They knew afterward he had made up his mind and but awaited the mo ment. That moment came when the Edith, having sailed seven miles, tacked pre paratory to the run home. The man, so young, so determined, knew, or suppos ed, the water under him there was as deep as he could hope for. He arose and slowly and very care fully, as if he feared to fa'l and hurt himself, he picked his way to the very bow. He took his hat from his head and, with a gesture more graceful than violent, cast it overboard. He turned for an instant to those in the boat. "Good-by!" he cried, then leaped into the water. The women on the yacht shrieked, seized the men, fearful, clung to them. "Save him, Captain! Put about! Save him! "We'll get him!" yelled the men, and two or three jumped off and pulled off their coats. Obeying the tiller, which Parker han dled, the iEdith quickly came about. The young man, so weary of life, who had risen from his plunge, glanced over his shoulder at the boat and vigorously struck out, swimming away from her. He swam well, strongly for a minute or two, even and again looking over his shoulder at the Edith, as if he led in a race agiost her. The yacht gainsd on him. But he won the race. He was not more than twenty yards away from the Edith. Women with agonized eyes were star ing at him; others hid their faces. Men on the boat were cursing their helpless ness. This calm but determined young man ceased to swim; he appeared to "tread wat r'' strongly, for as he rocked and swayed erect in the green rollers his armpits were above the surface. With his right hand he drew a pistol from one of his pockets, whose car tridges, of course, were waterproof. He put the pistol to nis headl. The people on the boat saw a 11ash, in the thou sandth of a second heard a report. A little cloud of smoke wa3 lost in the spray. The most remarkable of suicides dis appearcd in the calm, the life giving ocean.-New York Journal. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. A Fast Train Crashes Into a Full Omnibus. Eteven persons were instantly killed and 11 others, several dwhom will die, were seriously injured Sunday night in a grade crossing accidbnt three miles east of Slatington, Pa., by a passenger train on the Lehigh and New England railroad crashing into an omnibus con taining 25 persons. All the dead and injurned were in the omnibus, and but three escaped uninjured. At least three fourths of the occupants of the omnibus were ladies. The accident occurred about 5 o'clock. The omnibus, driven by a man named Peters, was returning to Slatington from a funeral the occupants had been attending at Cherrysville. The coach belonged to Henry Bittner of Slatington, and the dead and injured were nearly all rela tives of Sophia Schoeffner, at whose obscquies they had been present. The train was a special and consisted of an engine and one car. At the poirt at which the collision occurred there is a sharp curve in the road and the omni bus came along at a good rate of speed, the occupants unconscious of any im pending danger. As the bus swung around the curve the engine and car came in sight. It was too late to stop either the omnibus or the train and as the driver of the former whipped up the four horses to cross the track ahead of the train, the latter crashed into its middle. The occupants were thrown in all directions, bruised and bleeding. The 11 dead were killed outright. Physicians and a special train were sent for and the injured were taken to South Bethlehem. No watchman is employed to warn teams or pedestrians of any ap proaching train and those living in the vicinity state that it is impossible to hear an a; p-oaching train. A peculiar feature of the accident was that the horses drawing the bus escaped unhurt. The way of the newspaper man or the transgressor is hard. The Swains boro Wiregrass Blade says: "It's a great pleasure to run a c~untry newspa per-its so nice to be able to do things for accommodatien, you might publish free notices of births. deaths, marriages, etc , to the amount of a hundred dollars or more and then send a man a bill for $1 subscription and he will want to curse you out." Dr. Charles E. Page created quite a sensation at the Washington conven tion of Doctors by coming to the de fense of the microbe. He held that a healthy body generates its own germi ides and that the microbe in such a body stands about as good a chance of doing mischief "as a mouse in a tight room surrounded by a dozen hungry A1'r T &Afl4G AP3 Bill Will Not Lecture Until Victuals Are Exhausted. 'Tis home where the heart is, and the most of mine is here. - lhe epicure filled his stomach with choicest food and exclaimed, "Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today," and so I have filled my heart with the sweets and comforts of home. and feel defiant of human misery. Fate cannot harm me, for my nome is my castle where, as Blackstone says, "the king of England dare not enter uninvited." But an old man did enter not long ago and said he eamo to stay a few days if it was cm venient. I saw his baggage on the iron seat in the verandah. He said, "I travel free and lodge free and mix with none but the best people, and so I have come to abide with you fora few days. I hope it is convenient." Well it was ent convenient, for my wife was at Rome and my daughters away, and I had never heard of him, and so I told him it was not convenient. He seemed surprised and asked me if was a Vir ginin, I told him no, 1 was a Georgian, and he said that Virginians seemed to be scarce in this region and he feared that old Virginia hospitality had not reached here; that Bishop Nelson had entertained him in Atlanta, and he had found a welcome among all Virginians. "What are you going to do with me?" he asked. "I am lame and can't walk; I was told you had a carriage and would drive me anywhere I wihed to go " "No, sir, 1 have neither carriage nor buggy, but I will go dovn town and get a vehicle and take you anywhere you wish to go." Then he said that Brother Bealer told him that if I would not take him, there was a poor widow across town who would, and he would speak to her. So I took him there and left him, and will pay his bill if Brother Bealer dident. There are religious tramps as well as sinner tramps, and they are not angels unawares. I was down in the wiregrass region for nearly two weeks, and have most pleasant memories of my new found friends, but the last day was the best for I was on my journey home and counted the milestones as we speeded along. Happy faces and loving kisses greeted me when I came, and here I am going to rest until the larder gets low and my wife insists that I had better make another venture. And now let the procession proceed. Let the war go on. It is none of my begetting; it might have stopped at Santiago, but our Yankee brethern seem to love the nigger afar off and have bought 8,000, 000 at two dollars and a half a head, which was cheap enough if Spain could have delivered the goods. But they have cost ten times that now and are still in the woods. We used to adver tise our runaways and say "Ten dol lars reward-Runaway from the sub scriber my boy Dick, 25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, black complexion and very flat nose. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to me or his lodgment in the nearest jail." Why not try try that on Aguinaldo and the other runnaways? But if they catch them I don't know what they are going to do with them; they wouldent let Aguinaldo set up a barber shop in Manila no more than they would in Boston or Chicago. Professor Council, who is president of the colored agricultural college in Alabama, under stands this. He is the smartest and best leader of his race, and when he speaks or writes to the public always says the right thing. 1 have great respect for him. But this awful muddle with China, which was precipitated by our aggres sion upon the Philippines, see'ms to have no end in sight. Rev. Dr. Halder man, of New York, who is said to be a very learned man, says that he demon strated a year ago from scriptual pro phecy that the present year would find all the nations at war, and there would be a mighty struggle between Russia and China, and that Russia-would even tually gain the supremacy; but that for a :time the hordes from China will break ini an awful avalanche upon the western nations and the greed, the rapacity. the Christless, Goliless selfish ness of Enropean nations will get its reward, and there will be a terrible balance sheet against those Christian nations who have poisoned China with opium and made them look upon all Christians as rapacious foreign devils. He says that the Chinese are fighting for their homes and institutions, and know that the Christian nations are seeking to rob them, and that their mis - sionaries are backed by guns and swords and Godless soldiers rcady to kill and slay. This infariates them, and they look upon any white man as a devil who should be slain. He says that while this impending and destructive war is ordained of God and foretold by His prophets, yet the sin of it lies at the doors of Christian nations. tDfenscs must needs come, but woe unto those by whom they come. The love of money is still the root of all evil. "Trade will follow the flag," is the shibboleth of commerce, and if the fiag has to be stained with blood it does not matter. These arc my convictions, and hence I can't work up any enthusiasm nor any revenge. In 1841 E agland took Hong Kong. In 1848 England made China pay $20,000,000 because she de stroyed 20,000 chests of opium that had been stored there by English merch ants. In 1858 Russia grabbed all the Armoor country, containing 600,000 square miles, and when the United States grabbed the Philippines the sus picious Chinaman said, "The Chris tians are coming; they want mere." No, it is none of my war. The blood of it is on somebody's hands. I see that General Gordon is going up yonder on another mission of peace -trying to mix up the blue and the gray and make a compromise color that will satisfy beth sides. He can't do it, but maybe he enjoys the fun of trying. Here and there you will find a gol* hearted, clever Federal pensioner, but most of the clever ones come down here and stay. The malignant ones don't come; they are afraid to come. That is all right; let I hem stay there; we had rather live with the negroes than mean Yankees. Here is a paper (The Mon roe Chronicle) that was sen-. me last week-a marked copy--that is mad be cause our people talk about ouilding a Confederate memorial at Richmond, and says it ought not to be allowed, and that our loyalty to the union is all a pretense, and that Bill Arp, a noted rebel and writer, shows no love f'r a restored union. He says that such a memorial is an insult to the nation and makes treason honorable and loyalty odious; every Confederate monument is a bloody shirt, ani the Republican par ty ought to die, and die eternally, if it ever allows the return of those rebdl flags which are an insult to the union dead and disabled veterans, Hie de nounced our rebel sosgs and rebel trib utes to treason: and there is a lot morelI of such stuff, and it is in keeping with'i General Shaw's utterances in Atlanta about what we all teach our children. Uld as I anm, I can lick that fellow in good to maul some grace into his ma lignant soul. I am afraid *e will have to whip them again. But I at not go ing to let every fool up there make me mad-I haven't got time-I'd rather work in the garden or play with the grandchildren; they keep me amused, and I can love them without a strain. Last night I had to play Trimbletoe with them, and had to be the elephant and let them ride home on my back. How far away that sounds-"Catches his hens and puts them in a pens; some lays eggs and some lays none; wire, briar, li'nberlock, three geese in the flock," etc. One of these little girls, not yet four years old, disobeyed her mother yesterday and was promised a whipping. "Mary Lou, this is the see ond time you have opened the ice chest and turned over the cream. I told you that if vc u did it again I would whip you No v come along in the other room." Sbe is a good child, loving and smart, but wilful. "Mama, peas don't vip me hard." Her older sister, Caro line, had followed along out of sympa thy Mary Lou saw her and said, "Now, Talline, you go back; me don't want you to see mama vip me and hear me cry. It's none of your pisness; it's jast my pisness.. You go back, Talline," and she laid herself across her mother's lap ready for her bisness. The mother couldn't stand that; she relented and kissed her child, and the little thing promised again. 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Large bottles $1, eix for five $5. Write for free samplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. A Big War Coming. When the approaching crisis in China shall have arrived very grave questions will arise. Can the powers agree either to maintain the empire intact, under a reformed administration, or to divide it up in a manner satisfactory to all concerned? Will RussiA abandon her pretensions? Will Japan let pass the opportunity to acquire Korea? P'ossi bly diplomacy, whiich has manyre sources, may stave off the apprehended conflict, but the conditions are evi dently such as to threaten a war of monstrous proportions. McKinley Prosperity. . The failures for May, as com piled from Dun's Review, num ber 947, as compared with 581 last year and 917 in the "calamit ous" year of 1896. The number for May, 1900, is the largest ever known in that month since the records have been kept. The records for the two succeeding months have been equally signi ficant, as indicating the full meaning of the McKinley pros perity. President Gary of the Federal Steel Trust, who cer tainly has no motive for mis representing the facts on that side, said in a recent statement of the iron and steel industry: "The demand is not equal to the production, and the latter should ue curtailed until conditions change.'' Production is being curtailed at a rate extremely disastrous to the irrterests of workingmen. And this in spite of the pressure which, it is everywhere agreed, is being brought to bear upon the trust managers by their friends, Han na and McKinley, to keep their wor-ks open if possible until af ter the election. The trust men are good Hanna Republicans and would be glad to comply with this campaign request, but there is a limit even to the powers of a trust which has fat tened upon the abnormal profits of a short season of artificia!. prosperity. The trust men ar-e doing the best they can, but the truth cannot be concealed that the bottom is out of the McKinley prosperity, and the end is near at hand. Trade and the Flag. The New York World says the official statement of the exports from the Philippines during the colendar year 1899 gives the total at $19,256,091. Of this the hemp exports were valued at nearly $8,000,000 and raw sugar about the same-only one-tenth of which came the United States.. The remainder was made up of copra, leaf tobacco and cigars. The exports by countries, in-' cluding gold and silver, show: To China, 8S6,910,498; the United States, $4,04,2.55; England, $3, 701,36:3; Japan. $1,98.5,896, and Spain, 81,-170,231. So that China, which has no "flag" in the Philippines, got nearly $3, 000,000 more of the small trade than we did, and England almost as much. We receive at New York on any steamer day more imports from Europe than come to us in a whole year from our wonderful new possessions. The entire value~ of the comn mer-ce for a y'ear does not equal the cost of the occupation and war a week. A thrifty Indianapolis. Ind-, Republican merchant put in a big stock of McKinley-Rooseven campaign hats, which he pro posed to sell at 2~> cents a hat. The expected rush dlidn't come and after reducing the price from day to day till he got dlown t one cent. lie is now giving them away to g-et rid of them, and they are not going fast at ONS #11iA20 EM A PAkt~fNdi Fabulous Price Said to Have Been Offered for a Beautitul Work of Titian. The preposterous report that some one had offered ?200,000, or $1,000,000, for Titian's celebrated painting of "Sa cred and Profane Love," In the Bor ghese collection at Rome, Is due, In all probability, to the universal hunger for astonishing people, although it may have some color of possibility to the Imagination of kindergarten finan ciers, says the Boston Transcript. In sensate prices have been paid for Riaphaels, that in the National gallery especially, which came from the Marl borough collection; also for the works of other old masters, but never any such incredible price as this. Yet it would be a hard matter to set the ex act limit of value in the case of a sale of Titian, more particularly such an example as the absurdly misnamed "Sacred and Profane Love." If there exists in the world a picture worth $1,000.000, who would be bold enough to deny the right of Titian, the poten tate of painters, to be the author of that work? As to the picture known by the title of "Sacred and Profane Love"-a title which Titian did not give It, and which has needlessly puzzled many commentators-it is now gener ally considered simply as a fanciful or romantic composition. But Franz Wickoff, a Germ'an critic, has evolved a theory, which has a good deal to recommend it, that this picture represents an Incident in the seventh book of the "Argonautica" of Valerius Flaccus, the Latin poet, where it is re lated that Medea, the enchantress, daughter of Aecies, king of Colchis, un willing to yield to her love for the Greek Jason, Is visited by Venus, who pleads for the lover and endeavors to persuade Medea to follow her into the wood where Jason is waiting. Titian has represented this scene as taking place in the open air; the dawn is just breaking and rosy streaks appear on the horizon. A young woman richly dressed is seated on one side of a foun tain, on the edge of which she has placed a costly casket. Her right hand is in her lap and holds a bunch of magic herbs. Deeply moved, she gazes fixedly before her, lending ear the while to the persuasive voice of another woman seated near. The form of this woman, around which flutters a red mantle, is of a marvelous. beauty. She rests her right hand upon the foun tain's edge and with her left holds on high a vase from which issues a light smoke. Between the two women the god of love is splashing In the water with his chubby little hands. Mr. Wickoff maintains that in the beautiful nude figure Venus Is easily recognizable, even when her son is not there to indicate her presence. The woman to whom she spoke and who, though unwilling to yield blindly, still feels herself drawn by an irresistible power, is Medea, who betrayed the king, her father, and followed Jason, the stranger and enemy of her people. What An Opponent Says. The Spartanburg Herald is an eminently fair newspaper. While it opposes Gov. McSwee ney and supports Col. Hoyt it scorns to do the farmer an in justice. In a recent editorial the Herald says: "We very much prefer the election of Col. Hoyt to any of the candidates running, because we believe that prohibition is better for the State than the dispensary as it is run at present. We believe that a better plan than either can be evolved, which would come under the dispensary re striction as laid down in the Constitution: but the present system of State 'ownership of the saloon business cannot be defended. It is wrong in prin ciple and demoralizing in prac tice. While we very much pre fer a candidate who utterly re pudiates the dispensary as at present conducted, we are not blind to the fact that Gay. Mc Sweeney has refused to use the "Octopus" as a political ma chine for his own advancement, but lie has shown clearly that it was his desire and purpose to enforce the. law with as little friction and 'bloodshed as possi ble. His methods have not only brought about a decrease in the illict sales, but have tended to make the law more tolerable; and common justice suggests that it is not right for him to be condemned when he has done better than those who have gone before him. We believe that the Hon. Bunky. Patterson, Senator Tillman and the Colum bia State, if put on oath would be compelled to testify that the dispensary law in South Carolina is far better enforced today than at any time since it was enacted not excepting the time when the whole militia of the State was brought into service." Test Vote Favors Bryan. According to a test vote taken by the New York Journal re cently, William J. Bryan will sweept Greater New York in November by at least 89,936 plurality. Out of the total vote taken, 4,358, only 82 who had no vote in 189G will vote for McKinley this year, whereas 295 indicate their intention, onl signed blanks, to vote for Wil liam Jennings Bryan. Two thousand, five hundred and fif tv-six votes were recorded for ryan, 1802 for McKinley, and 18 scattering. At this ratio, if the total vote in Greater New York this year is as large as in 196, when it reached 519,296, the proportion of the two candi dates in November should be: Fr Brysn........ ... ....304,fl' For McKinley .. .. .. .. ...--24,6 The Journal's advance poll of the mayoralty contest two years ago proved 'a wonderfully an' curate test of the real vote. It was a forecast the fairness and completeness of which .were proven fully by tihe official re turns. This straw vote was taken with the same degree of onscietiousnless, and the fig res may be accepted as prophe ic of the actual returns in N'rvmhabr next.